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Show imtViTTrT"i rrt "" n wi rwn nrrrnw ni iwiiwiii imiip iwi i iwnwiwwnBinrTn News from Our Washington County People At Service Camps and the Nation's Battle Fronts By MABEL JARYIS Returns to Post Lawrence Turnbeaugh Mo.MM 1c was home five days during Christmas week to visit Mrs. Turnbeaugh and their children, his mother, Mrs. Nan Turnbeaugh and other relatives. This is his first visit home in many months. He has been stationed in Norfolk, Nor-folk, Va. since April and has served on the L. S. T. and other operation craft. He says this has been interesting, but uncertain work. However, he is now assigned as-signed to a ship and is anticipating anticipat-ing duty in the Pacific area. Sa fa Pa At Ordnance Base Working at the 3212th Ordnance Ord-nance Base Small Arms Maintenance Mainten-ance plant in France is Pvt. Louis Henry Searle, brother of Mrs. Clark Empey of St. George and former Dixie college student. Although Al-though this phase of the war effort is less known to the average aver-age civilian than most other phases, it is none-the-less important. import-ant. Every member of the shop is a trained technician and most of the men are able to perform any of the tasks incidental to assembling assem-bling and repairing all U. S. Army small arms and weapons. Included Includ-ed also is the repair and maintenance main-tenance of foreign weapons. The plant was established at a point formerly occupied by the Germans and it was a spot of ruin and destruction which the men rebuilt while furnishing repaired small arms for the allies. H fs R Writes from Italy Plenty of serious thinking was woven into the verses which Pfc. Thomas McArthur wrote home from Italy to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Moroni McArthur and to his wife at Christmas time. "Home" he says, is the place service men think of by day and dream of by night; where there is love and laughter; where cares are shared and troubles cured. If he had his way, he'd lock the doors and bar the gates against any who wanted to settle troubles with fighting. Wish we could print the entire poem. pa fa Home From Pacific T4 Clay Williams, son of Mr and Mrs. K. D. Williams of St George finds St. George a little cool after his more than 28 months in the Central, South and Southwest Pacific. He left St. Geore with the 115th Engineers in March, 1941, and this is his first visit home in 30 months. His special assignment has been with the Malaria control division and it has really been some experience. ex-perience. Making miles of trench to drain the swamps and spraying the air with gallons of diescl oil were some of the procedures. This has been good education for this Dixie boy, and he says he is glad to have had the experience and training and is happy for this trip back home. War Far From Over Mrs. Brig Randall of St. George received a letter this week from : her brother, SSgt. Clair Osten- sen, the first in more than two months. In part he says that those who think the war is just about over have more guesses 1 coming, because that date is still in the future. He urges everyone back home to keep "on the ball" as the boys in combat are doing and that will bring victory a little sooner than it can come if they let up now when their help and support are most needed. 19 19 14 Returns to Pacific Enroute back to the Southwest Pacific after his visit home, Ross McArthur EM 3c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Moroni McArthur of St. George, reports he suffered repeated re-peated losses. Before he reached Hawaii, he lost his wallet containing contain-ing "money and valuable papers. From there out the seas were so rough that he and even many old sailors, lost plenty. There is just one compensation on the trip, he had several hours in Hawaii and was able to visit his cousin, Seaman Sea-man Karl Cottam. Pa Pa Pa Barber David Wilson F 1c, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Wilson of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, is definitely one of the barbers bar-bers of Hawaii. Someone had to do the barbering and for want of equipment, he and two companion com-panion seamen rigged up their own chair, elevator and all, out of a disabled army jeep. They now have a full time assignment. The famed Barber of Seville had nothing on ttjem for popularity; Writing home ' at Christmas, Wilson said in part, "I appreciate having been brought up in such a swell family. It is the greatest thing I have for which to be thankful. I used to think I was overworked, having things to do when other fellows had all their time. Now I know those home tasks kept me out of a lot of trouble." Pa Ps P Home from Pacific Area Pvt. Robert Burgess is home for a 21 day visit with his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Burgess, Bur-gess, after 29 months with the 115th Engineers in the Southwest Pacific area. Many will recall the story of his work as an army lumberjack. He stopped over in Salt Lake City to visit with his sister, Mrs. Glenn Quigley and arrived here Tuesday morning. He and TSgt. Clay Williams had time to talk things over on the long voyage. They left St. George together in March, 1911 and are among the few still with that unit. P4 Pn ra Sgt. Barnum In England Mrs. Andrew Barnum received word this week that her husband, Sgt. Barnum is located in England. Eng-land. He knows all the thrills of seasickness and says he spent about half of his time leaning over the rail. However, he had to help get the ship's daily newspaper news-paper printed, so worked, sick or not. He is still with headquarters company and getting a chance to see a little of England. Hume for Holidays Home for just a week of the holidays, were Pvt. Robert Harper, Har-per, Pvt. Wesley Whitehead and his brother, Pvt. Evan Whitehead. White-head. The three left St. George together and have had their first round of training together at Camp Wolters, Texas, where they have been located the past five months. This short stopover enroute to Fort Ord, Calif, gave Pvt. Harper his first cyefull of his daughter. Gwendolyn, aged four months. It was also a great occasion for Pvt. Evan Whitehead and his wife with their baby. The three Ixiys have gone on together to Fort Ord and are hoping they won't be scperat-ed scperat-ed and can soon come back home for keeps. Pa fa Pt In Franco Mrs. Miles Nelson called at. the office Saturday for a service flag. Her husband Pfc. Nelson is now in France. All he wanted for Christmas, since he couldn't be home, was a harmonica, but Santa failed to locate one, new or used. Mrs. Nelson and their two sons, Gerry and Kent, live in St. George. She has two brothers in the service. Pfc. Max Swapp, an M.P. with the 7th army, has been in Europe Hvo years and is now in France. Mont C. Swapp S 2c has been in the Navy since June and is located in San Francisco. n n w Fourth Son In .Service Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ilafen of Washington now have a four-star service flag in their window since their son, Darrel, joined the coast guard last week. He has been employed at defense work for several months and enlisted with the coast guard nt Salt Lake City. The other three boys already serving are SSgl. P.anard Ilafen, in France; Pfc. Vere Ilafen, in Italy and Kay Ilafen, training at Chicago. fu roj M Promoted Calvin H. Ballard, waist gunner gun-ner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, which is participating in Klh Air force bombing attacks on military and Indus! rial targets in Nazi Germany, has been promoted to sergeant. Sgt. Ballard is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Edward Ballard of Hurricane. Hur-ricane. Before entering the AAF In Sept. IfM.I, he was enrolled In Hurricane high school. He is a member of Hip n-1 1 li Bomb. Ortu, a unit of the ,'lrd bnitibardmptil division filed by Hie President for ils liislnric kIiiiIIIi' bombing of MesHersf hmiill plants at Kcgens-burg, Kcgens-burg, Germany. |